Product Review
Yealink’s innovative MP IP phone series is now Zoom certified, making this advanced series of IP phones all the more useful and functional for employees of all types. In this article, we explore the implications of this certification and what it means for businesses with a high percentage of mobile and hybrid employees.
Topics: Wireless, Business Telephone System, Yealink, Software Integration, Mobility (including remote work), Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Product Review, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zoom
The adoption of a hybrid office model has been accelerated in the post-lockdown era. In a previous article, we examined some communications services and infrastructure that have been developed in recent years to enable and facilitate this hybrid office model.
In this article, we examine the hybrid office more deeply by looking at various approaches that businesses can take. We also touch upon some principles necessary for taking full advantage of the hybrid office and ensuring a smooth transition.
Topics: SIP Phones, Trends, Mobility (including remote work), Productivity, Collaboration
The pandemic and resulting lockdowns around the world have dramatically changed the ways that businesses operate. One of the most noticeable changes has to do with what has recently been coined as the hybrid office. In this article, we examine this new operational model and see how various communications services can aid in making it not only viable, but exceptionally advantageous.
Topics: SIP Phones, SIP, Mobility (including remote work), Productivity
The Konftel 800 SIP conference phone has been officially certified to work with the fast-growing cloud phone solution from Zoom Video Communications, Inc. The flagship Konftel 800 audio device, fully tested to work on Zoom Phone, features an award-winning design and high-quality OmniSound with beamforming microphones and audio expansion capabilities. In this article, we highlight some of the key features of this conference phone.
Topics: SIP Phones, SIP, Conferencing, Product Review, Cloud, Konftel, Zoom
Telephony is all about voice communication. For over 100 years, telephones have brought people together, connecting individuals and businesses around the world. Today, communications systems are being enhanced to a degree that voice is no longer the only option for communications, nor is it alone the most desirable. Its integration with video services is becoming increasingly prevalent.
In this article, we’ll examine the current trends in the integration of video with telephony, resulting in video telephony, and how it is being deeply integrated with voice systems.
Topics: Yealink, Trends, Videoconferencing, Yeastar, Microsoft, Collaboration, Zoom
When combining multiple Boom devices into a single videoconferencing kit, the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Boom Collaboration demonstrates this truism with its huddle room kit composed of the advanced MEZZO 4K camera along with the GIRO Pro wireless speakerphone. For a limited time, Boom is making these kits available for demo purposes (not for resale), at a 50% discount, exclusively for TeleDynamics dealers/resellers. Contact your TeleDynamics rep for details or click here to book a free, no-obligation Boom LIVE! demonstration to see the MEZZO+GIRO Pro huddle room kit in action.
Topics: Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Productivity, Collaboration, Boom Collaboration
Product Review
There are many businesses that require wireless telephony on their premises. Hospitals, hotels, warehouses, universities, and a multitude of manufacturing environments require employees to maintain a high level of mobility within an enterprise’s facilities while simultaneously maintaining their reachability via the internal phone system.
For such environments, a DECT-based system is arguably the simplest turn-key solution. Snom has made such a solution even simpler and highly scalable with its M900 DECT base station.
Topics: Wireless, Business Telephone System, VoIP, SIP, DECT, Product Review, Voice Protocols, Snom
A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is a concept that has been around for over a decade. Even so, there are still many areas of this technology that are difficult to fully understand, especially for administrators and decision-makers whose expertise lies elsewhere. However, it is important for people in management positions to be aware of the benefits of SD-WANs because they are becoming increasingly essential as cloud-based services become more ubiquitous.
In this article, we shed light on SD-WANs and their usefulness in modern networks.
Topics: Wireless, Network Design, Cloud, SD-WAN, WAN Technology
Product Review
In a world where remote and hybrid work arrangements have become the norm, Zoom is one of the most frequently used collaboration platforms. Yealink’s video bar systems for Zoom allow workers to easily turn any small to medium-sized conference room into a Zoom Room. We review some of the key functions and benefits to these solutions in this article.
Topics: Yealink, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Product Review, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Collaboration, Zoom
A WAN connection using wireless technology is among the simplest and fastest ways to connect a business to the internet. However, with so many technologies out there, and so many network design and architectural options to deploy, this simple solution can quickly take on a very complex form.
In this article, we hope to simplify the task of sorting through the various choices, allowing you to take advantage of quick, efficient, and often economical wireless options.
Topics: QoS, VoIP, Network Design, Wi-Fi, WAN Technology
